Ruslan Rudenko/ VKontakte
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent requests to the competent authorities of the United States, Germany, France and Cyprus to investigate the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. The Prosecutor General’s Office took action after it recieved an appeal of State Duma deputies Andrei Krasov, Nikolai Kharitonov, Yana Lantratova and public figures Alexander Dugin and Andrei Derkach calling to investigate the facts of possible involvement of individuals and structures in the preparation and financing of terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as the undermining of the Northern Stream pipelines. In their statement, they named the names of the people who conducted the “cover operation” to divert any suspicions from the United States and NATO member countries.
The authors of the appeal draw attention to the fact that a detailed chronology of events before the explosion of gas pipelines was described in the article “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” written by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. The article reports on events and meetings of the top political, military and intelligence leadership of the United States aimed at planning an operation to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines.
The deputies noted that NATO exercises were held right before the explosions near the gas pipelines, although a different location was announced for the military drills. They also pointed out the unusual navigation routs of ships from Great Britain, Panama and Poland in areas near the sites of future explosions on September 22-24, 2022.
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A cover-up operation
Seymour Hersh revealed in his investigation that at all stages of planning the operation to destroy the Nord Stream, the Biden administration paid special attention to diverting any suspicion from the United States and NATO member countries. Therefore, according to the authors of the Russian appeal, a well-planned operation assumed the existence of a “cover operation” to exclude accusations from real perpetrators and beneficiaries.
“Ukraine, which is in conflict with the Russian Federation, is ideally suited for such a role in an interstate organized criminal group,” the appeal reads.
They drew attention to numerous statements by the leadership of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) and personally Kirill Budanov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) about the involvement of his department in carrying out terrorist acts against citizens and interests of the Russian Federation. Ukraine’s involvement in the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines was covered by the world’s largest media.
Thus, referring to information obtained from reliable Ukrainian sources, the authors claimed that a group of divers was involved in the “cover operation”. The group was under control of the head of the GUR Budanov. Organizational and technical assistance was provided by American specialists under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv Christopher W. Smith and the former head of the GUR Vasily Burba.
According to the Russian deputies, the group was first trained in a deep-water quarry in the Zhytomyr region, after which it was sent to Romania, where its members obtained Romanian documents and lived in a private house next to the Romanian Mangalia submarine base. Training sessions were conducted there, as close as possible to real conditions in the area of the South Streams. After training, the group was sent to Poland, where the yacht Andromeda was rented.
Roman Chervinsky
Group Leader
According to the Russian appeal, the operative leader of the group was Roman Chervinsky, who was previously named the coordinator of the attack on gas pipelines by The Washington Post in its investigation. Chervinsky served in the Counterintelligence Department (5th directorate of the SBU) since 2016, and in 2022 became the commander of one of the units of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine. He is currently being held in a prison in Kiev on charges of abuse of power as a result of a conspiracy aimed to force a Russian pilot to flee to Ukraine.
Members of the group
According to the sources of the authors of the appeal, the “cover-up” group included, 5 more people. Kuznetsov Sergey Anatolievich, an officer of the Department of Environmental Protection and Civil Protection of the Department of Environmental Safety and Mine Action of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was named the senior member of the group.
Anatoly Ivanovich Burgomistrenko
Another member of the group is Anatoly Ivanovich Burgomistrenko. Captain of the 1st rank, head of the Intelligence Department, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy for Intelligence, who was trained in mine demolition at the 131st center of the Special Operations Forces, has good diving training.
Ruslan Rudenko
3 people were diving directly to the Nord Stream pipelines. They are Oleg Grigoryevich Varava, senior inspector of the engineering and technical platoon of the rapid response company of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kiev, a female technodiver with the call sign “Marisha”, as well as Ruslan Anatolyevich Rudenko with the call sign “Chaplain”, former deputy mayor of the Ukrainian city of Bila Tserkva. Earlier, Rudenko served in the police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Bila Tserkva district. On the VKontakte page with the name Ruslan Rudenko from the city of Bila Tserkva, you can see photos of a man in diving equipment.
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